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  • Rebel Daughters

    Women and the French Revolution

    Series series University of California Humanities Research Institute Series
    This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution. Although the male leaders of the Revolution depended on the women's active militant participation, they denied to women the rights they helped to establish. At the same time that women were banned from the political sphere, "woman" was transformed into an allegorical ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Colonizer or Colonized

    The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture

    Colonizer or Colonized introduces two colonial stories into the heart of France's literary and cultural history. The first describes elite France's conflicted relationship to the Ancient World. As much as French intellectuals aligned themselves with the Greco-Romans as an "us," they also resented the Ancients as an imperial "them," haunted by the memory that both the Greeks and Romans had ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Colonizer or Colonized

    The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture

    Colonizer or Colonized introduces two colonial stories into the heart of France's literary and cultural history. The first describes elite France's conflicted relationship to the Ancient World. As much as French intellectuals aligned themselves with the Greco-Romans as an "us," they also resented the Ancients as an imperial "them," haunted by the memory that both the Greeks and Romans had ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

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    Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789–1794

    How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau's writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution suggests that it is perhaps on a different shelf of the Enlightenment library that we might find the ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution

    Translated by Lydia G. Cochrane ...
    Series series Bicentennial reflections on the French Revolution
    Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultural origins” but by pinpointing the conditions that “made is possible because conceivable.”Chartier has set ... Read more

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  • The Punitive Society

    Lectures at the Collège de France, 1972-1973

    Translated by Graham Burchell ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    These thirteen lectures on the 'punitive society,' delivered at the Collège de France in the first three months of 1973, examine the way in which the relations between justice and truth that govern modern penal law were forged, and question what links them to the emergence of a new punitive regime that still dominates contemporary society. ... Read more

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  • Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715

    Seditious Frivolity

    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and ... Read more

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  • The Body and the French Revolution

    Sex, Class and Political Culture

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Revolution
    This book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes to the event. It was not simply a series of events with worldwide repercussions, but also represented the foundation of the middle-class domination of social, cultural and political space, which survives today and is the site of major crises of public culture. One ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought

    Histories of economics tend to portray attitudes towards commerce in the era of Adam Smith as celebrating what is termed doux commerce, that is, sweet or gentle commerce. Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought proposes that reliance on this doux commerce thesis has obscured our comprehension of the theory and experience of commerce in Enlightenment Europe. ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Sentimental Theater of the French Revolution

    Smoothly blending performance theory, literary analysis, and historical insights, Cecilia Feilla explores the mutually dependent discourses of feeling and politics and their impact on the theatre and theatre audiences during the French Revolution. Remarkably, the most frequently performed and popular plays from 1789 to 1799 were not the political action pieces that have been the subject of much ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sans-Culottes

    An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution

    This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and economics of the revolution can be combined to form a genuinely historical narrative of its content ... Read more

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  • Salons, History, and the Creation of Seventeenth-Century France

    Mastering Memory

    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The first half of the book is a detailed study of how the salons influenced the development of literature. Beasley argues that many women were not only writers, they also served as critics for the literary sphere as a whole. In the second half of the book Beasley examines how historians and literary critics subsequently portrayed the seventeenth century literary realm, which became identified with ... Read more

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